syncopated.

cameras

brother...

still not sure whether i sold a panasonic, or a casio on tuesday.



today was a good day. i sold two canon ixus 55s within half an hour, all by myself!




"... is essentially the same as the ixus 50, except that it has a wider screen..."

"... $650, which includes a case foc, as well as a 256mb memory card, which you can redeem from harbourfront..."

"... thank you very much sir!"

haha. not sure what she's trying to do with her hair.

went down to school in the morning to find my classroom converted into a 'lan shop'. in short, played we8, let chun ming handle the booklist, had brunch, collected sch mag and report bk from front office (in doing so avoiding paying ben chan. bugger.), and ordered the jacket/blazer for next year.

chelsea lost :). should i support wigan?

will be swinging down to tim chan's house after work on monday, hurrah.

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iba

expensive cameras and such.

haven't had internet for the past few days, dunno why.

totally underestimated the shop i was working in.

i mean, at first sight, it's really nothing much, tiny, enclosed, packed, even untidy.

but take care to look into the 11th october print of the st, on the 7th page of Home. half a page dedicated to their excellent service, product knowledge etc. just found that page this morning.

this morning i boliao, google search.
first one.
second.

then look at these two links.

i'm like, all the more respectful. the three of them are really the best sia. just watching the way they serve customers. in fact majority of pple coming in are regulars...

but i'm also damn proud cuz i like sold this $1060 panasonic camera! it was damn funny also since i probably knew less about the camera than the customer, except i knew the price! rofl. the angmoh like just say, can i have a look at that, then fiddled with it for the next half hour, then took it. haha... wow. i made a contribution! like, woah.

ok enough self-praise.

thinking of going down to school tomorrow morning to collect stuff, report bk, school mag, booklist (work starts 1145).

time to go sell another $1000+ product.

ooh, and i just realised our sch website has had the same poll for one year.

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of twisted metal, 40 year old virgins helping friends, and other stories

of twisted metal,
40 year old virgins,
helping friends,

and other stories.

twisted metal

kwong requested this a while ago.

sailing [sā-ling] obsession. the fine art of getting really wet, really cold, going nowhere really fast, while spending really large amounts of money.

on sunday, marcus and i proved that final phrase true.

in the strong wind, we both took the trouble to break our top masts.

[location:brain]
{password}
^******^
{password/}
#access#
input>

<do: be patient when capsized, swing bow into wind
do not: right the boat through one full turn in shallow water>

input/>

output>

<more practise; hours in the gym>

output/>
#access/#
[location:brain/]

i'm hoping that uncle tony will be able to lend me a mast by the weekend. oh, and tomorrow we're getting the school 420s (i think).

it's also interesting that this is the 2nd time this sail has been torn in this fashion.

. . .

40 year old virgins



first it was bbq over the weekend. then paintball on sunday. the list goes on, 40 year old virgin on monday, lan on tuesday, flightplan today, bbq again this weekend, not on sat but on sunday (maurice's dad's bday).

no, that's not a list of outings i've had since the exams. it's a list of planned outings that came to nought.

e.g. monday i had a poorly timed dental appointment, today no flightplan (...).

our class kinda sux at planning outings, haha. even after two years still the same...

. . .

acs sailing/ helping friends

we had sailing meeting on tuesday, discussed things like criteria for next year's intake of sailors, captains, camps, etc.

imo, i dun really care about the school sailing programs. cuz i hardly train with the school anyway, i find that some of the pple attitudes are not good for training, much better with the squad. the worst thing is this rivalries with other schools like ri and vj, which is just terrible, especially as i'm such gd friends with so many of them. it just feels wrong la, to advertise school spirit, values, bonding etc and thus shun the others. all this talk about trying to get the best sailors to come to our school, bla bla bla.

and the interschools are always so shit anyway. without fail.

sailing should be public. sailing should be for everyone to enjoy and learn together. not to stick knives in each other's backs.

and my dear captain might just scold me for that.

but hear my second thought!

ac sailors are good for one thing - soccer. ironic but true. thus we go to part 2 of this story. after the meeting about 8 of us went to play soccer. even though greg had tuition at 530, he sportingly played with us till about 510, after which we both rushed home in a cab.

on the cab, he called home and realised that the teacher was already there. i exchanged my clean sch shirt with his muddied one in the hope that he won't be scolded too badly. he reached home abt 550.

i learnt today that his mom wasn't home, so not much of a scolding. close one there.

. . .

relief/ before the tension

we were supposed to receive our results at 920. so ben chan, jinyan, kwong and i went to "enjoy our final freedom" before that and go and play soccer. not that i felt any doom, but they seemed to, so i just followed lorh.

we had some fun on the muddy back field (haven't played there since sec 2), but when we reached class at 910 the two ladies were already in class. so we got scolded a bit la.

i'm ok with my results. highlights would be 81 and 79% for c. and a. maths respectively. oh, and i mentioned how i diligently studied geog? i got 66 haha... sorry la tim chan and yinghao - write so much still fail.

science papers weren't so good la, but expected.

so eventually my combo should turn out like this:
hl - math, chem, econs/geog/b&m
sl - la, mt, phy

. . .

iba

i'll be at "john 3:16 photo supplies", "109 bridge rd #03-37(179079)" for work attachment with paul yong. so perhaps over the next two weeks someone might come down and visit me? give me some business! haha. cool attachment la. kwong and hans got their own with some architecture company.

. . .

not a lot of people seem too be able to go australia. cai weiguo told me no money, so sad. sorry dude!

installing fifa 06. pple say it sucks. heck, i need a new game.

gd luck to all u pple taking 'o's. and whatever other exams also lah.

loooong poooost.

Strummed at 7:50 PM (x)

so long.

You may be invited girl, but you're not coming in.





so long. i'm off.

tampering with the tempest.

Happiness is:
a warm shower

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time of your life

Another turning point,
a fork stuck in the road.
Time grabs you by the wrist,
directs you where to go.

So make the best of this test and don't ask why.
It's not a question but a lesson learned in time.

how strange, innocence.

i've been feeling good ever since i trumped my two maths papers. (it sux sitting in front. right chin leong?)

and then today, i

-took the same bus home with tim chan, "freezing our balls off"

-met daniel lee at the amk bus stop. just that we were going in opposite directions.

-thought i saw someone who looked terribly like melissa woo in a car driving past. must be dreaming, crazy for her to be in this part of the world.

-was standing outside my door when the wind started gusting and billowing through the street. i stood and savoured it for a moment, then stepped back in when it began raining.

exams are over tomorrow. go chiong to town already... heard we might have some class bbq over the weekend, damn there's so many things i haven't done for weeks.

like sailing. i need to go and plead with giba to let me go australia. then it's back to gym for me.

your room's a mess.

benjamin's been causing me so many problems. i've realised that i've spent more time arranging morning transport for him than studying geog. 'open mind' indeed. maybe it's because he's listening to too much emo music - perhaps it's my influence.

i'm thinking of compiling some sort of "songs of the year" list... i've sort of been earmarking different tracks.

It's something unpredictable,
But in the end is right,
I hope you had the time of your life.

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street spirit (fade out)

genius of a riff. got sick of this song long ago... but it's hit me again.

the darkness did an ...interesting cover of it.

This machine will not communicate
These thoughts and the strain I am under
Be a world child, form a circle
Before we all go under

And fade out
again
and fade out
again

Immerse your soul in love.

Strummed at 8:52 PM (x)

examinations

inertia

is reluctance.

i thought some time ago about how it takes a lot for me to start studying, but once i begin, i can't seem to stop. until i fall asleep.

still, it pains me to see, beyond my window, swirling leaves and rustling branches, while i am trapped within, with books for companions. makes me wanna grab a tiller and chiong out the door.

there and back again.

if i could, at one sweep, understand everything about how the universe works, from junk dna to space time. after which, if i feel that it was better off not knowing in the first place, i wish to then be able to eradicate all memory of such knowledge, and return to a life of ignorance.

knowing nothing is better than knowing at all. -the used

and yet again, some of the fun in life is the challenge learning and understanding new things by yourself.

ah well. physics was challenging, not altogether fun. maths was... satisfying.

okonkwo, unoka, ezinma, nwoye, ikemefuna.
off the top of my head.

my dad introduced me to heavy water today. all of sudden i think i know what i want to do my ee. either that or deuterium, or yellow boy. firstly, they mean more than the sound at first - "dad, stop talking nonsense. there's no such thing as h₃0." (btw, it's D₂O.) secondly, it's chem, and probably means i'll be able to mess around in the lab.

someone very notable in the sailing community has had to consult my dad.
get well.

Strummed at 8:56 PM (x)

anniversary 2

happy anniversary!

just had to say this. i could draw parallels between friday's outing and yesterday's dinner. i met with my parents' 20+ year friends, and to me it was really not far from what we had with the sailors. they were telling wonderful stories (i learnt that on the wedding day, the wind blew the cake over. i also learnt what a stag party is.). hope things will be like that in the future for us.

i had a very nice chat with aunt priscilla (kwong, you shut up.). i think she's the bomb la. then she was the only one who got her hair done just for the dinner. she's got 8 children! (if i'm not wrong i think i can credit their first three sons for getting me started on soccer. (although that probably would have happened even without them anyway.)) she should represent s'pore's push for bigger families.

we had a nice chat about my future in school. her daughter's same age, also in ib program, in rgs. we were talking about subjects to take, sailing, life in general.

then we were also talking about how, if people wanted to get pregnant, they could just go to her house/ her office/ sit on her chair. rofl.

there were only two girls.
one was my close cousin, the other was quite pretty...

but she didn't want to talk.
she looked strangely like zhengmin.
like wth?

i also met tim seow's mom! haha, so cool. my dad had been saying that their colleague had a son also in acs ib, wondering if i knew him. when they asked me if i knew 'tim', i was like "there are so many tims i know..."

but i identified him cuz i asked his mom if he played soccer lol. like litmus test.

cyma aristocrat.
mine has a black watch face :)

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